Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night, Saigon turns into a honeycomb of private prison cells, the result of a dreary curfew; people withdraw into their houses, or hovels, in nervous anticipation of the next attack. The lights often dim and fade out, air conditioners collapse with a rattling whisper, and the streets outside lie dark and silent. Hundreds of wealthy South Vietnamese have forsaken the city for the seaside resort of Vung Tau. The Japanese government has ordered all its citizens who are not indispensable to leave the country. Many American civilians have taken to spending their nights at the heavily guarded, although frequently rocketed...
...early to tell whether Kennedy's career, his campaign, and the impulses he stimulated will have an immediate effect on American political life. On the national level, where his urgent voice and prod will be most sorely missed, the prognosis is tragically dim. Almost as depressing, the nation has been cut off from perhaps its most educational sport--watching and listening to the noisest, most enterprising U.S. Senator since George Norris...
February and the Tet Offensive brought a bit of Harvard's dovishfringe up to New Hampshire to campaign for "Gene." His prospects were dim and many students disliked his unemotional approach, but as Bruce Fireman '70, a follower of SDS, said, "I don't want any anti-war candidate to do badly; a Johnson victory would be interpreted as support for the war. . . . He [McCarthy] is the only candidate we've got, we ought to help...
Even with the Eastern win, Harvard's chances of playing in an NCAA title game looked dim. The District I Playoffs were during examination period, and the Administrative Board does not normally find baseball games a good excuse for missing a final...
...week passed and sent to the House a $5 billion bill aimed at, among other things, improving conditions in riot-torn cities by tripling output of subsidized housing for the poor. Soaring costs, to which subsidies themselves would contribute, can make that goal harder to reach; they can also dim the Johnson Administration's hope of almost doubling housing production to 2.6 million units a year within a decade...